Roman Silver & Bronze
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Lot 2517 Roman Silver & Bronze
Estimate $600
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SOLD $700
SEXTUS POMPEY, younger son of Pompey the Great, (died 35 B.C.), silver denarius, mint of Sicily, issued 42-40 B.C., (3.54 grams), obv. bare head of Pompey the Great to right, jug behind, lituus before, MAG PIVS IMP ITER around, rev. Neptune standing to left with right foot on prow, holding aplustre, between the Catanean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus, each of whom bears a parent on his shoulders, PRA[EF] above, CLAS ET OR[AE] over MARIT EX SC, (S.345 [£450], Cr. 511/3a, Syd. 1344, C. Pompey 17 [£300]). Dark tone, good very fine and rare.
Ex B.R. Noble Collection, Glendining's London, 11 December 1975 (lot 180). In 42 B.C Sextus Pompey defeated the attempt of Octavian's general Salvidienus to dislodge him from his Sicilian stronghold whereupon his troops proclaimed him the 'Son of Neptune', the theme adopted for Sicilian coinage. the title Prefect of the Fleet (praefectus classis) was that which had been bestowed by the Senate in April of 43 B.C., prior to Sextus being outlawed and eventually proscribed by the triumviral government. This issue is important in portraying a portrait of Pompey.
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